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Chen saves the day with precise timing of his Flying Kick, Gul'dan escapes a certain death by using his Demonic Circle, Ragnaros eliminates the entire enemy team with his Molten Core [D] trait. Ten minutes of WTF Moments from all around the Nexus await in the 75th episode.

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Log in to Heroes of the Storm from today through June 11 to claim your 3-Year Anniversary Portrait, Spray, and Banner.
Heroes of the Storm turns three on June 2 and all players can claim claim three anniversary rewards (3-Year Anniversary Portrait, Spray, and Banner) just by logging in to the game starting today through June 11.
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Time flies when you’re having fun, and we can hardly believe we’ve already spent three years battling it out in the Nexus! Reminisce about your trials and triumphs on the battlefield with a new 3-Year Anniversary Portrait, Spray, and Banner. You can claim all three of these rewards by logging in to Heroes of the Storm from today through Monday, June 11.
3-Year Anniversary Rewards
We’ve had lots of fun bringing tons of new Heroes, Battlegrounds, Skins, and so much more to the game these last three years, and we can’t wait to show you what we have in store for the rest of 2018! We hope to see as many of you as possible rocking those anniversary portraits, sprays, and banners in your Heroes of the Storm matches over the next few weeks. Until next time, we’ll see you in the Nexus.

The community grew frustrated by the frequency of Sun's Out Guns Out items in their Nexomania Loot Chests, so Blizzard decreased their drop chance and greatly increased the likelihood that Nexomania items will drop over Sun's Out Guns Out items. If you purchased Nexomania Loot Chests with Gems prior to 07:01 p.m. PDT on May 23, you will receive a number of new Nexomania Loot Chests equal to the amount you originally purchased.
Additionally, new Hero skins that are included in larger event bundles will also be available in separate Skin Packs.
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In the few short days since Nexomania began, competitors throughout the Nexus have eagerly leapt into the ring to choose tag-team partners and claim quest rewards. Amidst the excitement, however, we understand some of you have been disappointed by the frequency of Sun’s Out, Guns Out items in your Nexomania Loot Chests.
Nexomania and Event Loot Chests
As many of you know, themed event Loot Chests are guaranteed to contain at least one event-related item. Since items from last year’s Sun’s Out, Guns Out event are no longer available, we felt Nexomania could be a great opportunity to give players a second chance to pin down items from both events.
With that in mind, we gave Nexomania and Sun’s Out items an equal chance to drop in Nexomania Loot Chests. After reading community discussions, however, it seems we overestimated how often players would like to open Sun’s Out items. We’d like to put Nexomania back into the spotlight:
As of now, we’ve greatly increased the likelihood that Nexomania items will drop over Sun’s Out, Guns Out items in Nexomania Loot Chests.
If you used gems to buy Nexomania Loot Chests prior to 07:01 p.m. PDT on May 23 (4:01 a.m. CEST / 11:01 a.m. KST May 24), you will receive a number of new Nexomania Loot Chests equal to the amount you originally purchased.
These replacement Chests will feature the updated event item drop rate mentioned above and will be awarded within the next few days.
Please note: Nexomania Loot Chests earned through progression or Heroes Brawls will not be replaced.
We’re also going to make this drop-rate adjustment for future events. Going forward, new event Loot Chests will have this same increased chance to contain new items from the current version of an event over existing items from past versions of that event.
Event Bundles and Skins
Events like Nexomania are jam-packed with lots of new Hero skins and other cosmetic items. While we have a blast creating and releasing skins, we’ve also read feedback from players who would like more options when it comes to adding them to their collections. With future events, we’re going to give players more opportunities to pick up specific skins outside of the event bundles they appear in:
Going forward, new Hero skins that are included in larger event bundles will also be available in separate Skin Packs.
Each pack will be purchasable using gems and will contain all currently available versions of that skin.
This change doesn’t mean big event bundles are down for the count. We still plan to add them to the game but wanted to give players more variety when it comes to picking up new event items.
As always, we’d like to thank everyone who has shared their thoughts with us on these topics. We hope you enjoy the rest of Nexomania and manage to conquer your quests in record time! Until next time, we’ll see you in the Nexus.

The latest Heroes of the Storm patch includes Diablo/Lunara Hero reworks and Nexomania. Check out the full patch notes!
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Nexomania has begun, bringing new quests and rewards, as well as many new skins and mounts to Heroes of the Storm! Read on for details, as well as more info about gameplay updates for Lunara and Diablo.
NOTE: Orange text indicates a difference between the PTR and Live patch notes.
Nexomania!
Learn even more about Nexomania by visiting the official Heroes website!
La Parca Lunara and La Pantera Sonya are looking to recruit new tag-team partners for Nexomania, a contest where Heroes battle it out to become the Champions of the Nexus! Choose your partner, train up, and conquer the competition to claim the spoils of victory before Monday, June 11. Each of the four-part quest chains below grant different rewards based on who you side with, and the quests must be completed in order. Choose your partner wisely, because once you’ve picked Lunara or Sonya, your decision cannot be undone!
La Parca Lunara Quest Chain and Rewards
Train Up, La Parca Style: Play 3 Games.
Reward: Máscara de la Parca Portrait.
Show Match, La Parca Style: Achieve 70 Takedowns in winning games.
Reward: The Underworld Grip Spray.
Climb the Ladder, La Parca Style: Win 6 games.
Reward: Ojos de la Parca Animated Spray.
Cage Match, La Parca Style: Achieve 100 Takedowns in winning games.
Rewards: El Guapo Announcer and La Parca Lunara Portrait.
La Pantera Sonya Quest Chain and Rewards
Train Up, La Pantera Style: Play 3 Games.
Reward: Máscara de la Pantera Portrait.
Show Match, La Pantera Style: Achieve 70 Takedowns in winning games.
Reward: The Panther Forearm Spray.
Climb the Ladder, La Pantera Style: Win 6 games.
Reward: Furia de la Pantera Animated Spray.
Cage Match, La Pantera Style: Achieve 100 Takedowns in winning games.
Rewards: El Guapo Announcer and La Pantera Sonya Portrait.
Nexomania Loot Chests
Starting the week of May 22, Loot Chests earned through progression (except Hero-specific Chests), Heroes Brawl, or by spending Gems will be Nexomania Loot Chests. These Loot Chests guarantee at least one item from the Nexomania or Sun’s Out, Guns Out events. Step into the ring and start leveling-up to pin down some loot before the competition concludes on June 11!
Please Note: Loot Chests earned prior to the start of this event will not become Nexomania Loot Chests.
Art
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents
Diablo: Diablo and Archangel Diablo’s Abilities have received updated visual effects to coincide with Ability and Talent changes.
Garrosh: Garrosh’s Abilities have received updated visual effects.
Malfurion: A new leaf icon and timer will now appear above Regrowth targets’ nameplates to indicate remaining Heal duration.
The icon and timer will change color based on Regrowth’s remaining Heal duration: from green to yellow at 10 seconds remaining, and then to red during the last 5 seconds.
User Inteface
MVP Screen
Players can no longer vote for themselves on the end of match awards screen.
This should help encourage players to spread the love by commending others for their epic plays!
The number of votes required to achieve epic and legendary commendations on the end of match awards screen have each been reduced by one vote.
This has been done to account for the removal of self-voting. Previously, a self-vote could often make the difference for a player who was one vote shy of reaching epic or legendary status.
Loot Chests
The Loot Chest carousel on the Loot screen now automatically switches to a Loot Chest type the player already owns, rather than always defaulting to Rare Loot Chests.
Design
General
Holding right-click and dragging the cursor to move is no longer interrupted when entering targeting mode prior to casting an Ability.
Movement Speed Visual Effects
Visual effects for Movement Speed bonuses and Slows will now only display on units whose Movement Speeds are being increased or decreased by more than 5%.
Previously, a Hero could display these visual effects even if their Movement Speed hadn’t been significantly altered. This could occur as a result of multiple stacking Movement Speed bonuses and Slows, or due to a stacking Quest Talent.
Battlegrounds
Custom Games
Hanamura has been temporarily removed from Custom Games.
Mercenaries
Infernal Shrines
The Khazra at the southernmost Mercenary Camp on Infernal Shrines now move into lane once they are captured, rather than path around the lane to attack opposing structures directly.
Heroes
Assassin

Our nineteenth Heroes of the Storm Meta Tier list for the month of May is here!
We present our nineteenth Heroes of the Storm Meta Tier List for the month of May 2018.
Welcome to Icy Veins's Meta Tier List for the May 9 patch. The goal of this list is to try and detail game's current metagame state. The prime goal of such lists is to inform players regarding popular and trending team composition drafting strategies (i.e. the drafting metagame). Although tier listings are generally the product of balance, many factors come into play when discussing the relative perceived strengths of heroes, including player regions, maps, play style, skill level, and, of course, personal perception. As such, any tier list—including this very one—should never be interpreted as gospel, but rather, as a guide to better grasp what to expect with regards to typical drafting experiences. One useful application of such lists is to allow you know which heroes to look out for in terms of practice and counterplay, ultimately improving your knowledge of the game.
Using the list
As stated above, tier lists are easy to mistake for gospel. As new strategies are discovered and experimented with, so changes the perception of the relative strengths of each hero. Tier lists still prove to be useful as a snapshot of player expectations in terms of drafting. Although it is generally considered preferable to focus on high tier heroes (Prime and Core tiers), it is important to note that Heroes of the Storm's wild character and map designs make it so that any given hero's tier position is prone to fluctuate depending on the situation at hand.
One classic example of such is that of Kerrigan on the Infernal Shrines map. Although we currently judge her to be a mid-tier hero, her drafting priority shoots up to first-pick or first-ban material on this specific map due to the nature of its objective. Certain heroes also synergise so well with each other that the sole fact of having the opportunity of drafting them together is generally enough to increase their potential. Tassadar and Tracer, for instance, are generally nightmarish to deal with for many. There are too many examples of these interactions to reasonably produce here, but we invite you to consult our guides to know exactly where and when each hero shines. The guides have been linked in the lists below for your convenience - just click any of the hero names to access them.
A ↑ next to a hero's name means its tier list position has increased since the previous month whereas a ↓ means just the opposite. Additionally, a + or - sign indicates short-to-medium term predictions (which is to say, about a month) for tier increase(s) or decrease(s), respectively. These are often updated after significant balance patches and/or when clear trends are emerging.
If you're newer to the game, also consider visiting our glossary for a comprehensive list of discrete Heroes of the Storm terms.
Current ranked mode map rotation

Prime Tier
Warrior
Assassin
Support
Specialist
Diablo
Genji
Malfurion
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E.T.C.
Fenix
Stukov
Garrosh↑
Maiev-
Sonya
Thrall
Prime tier heroes are considered to be extremely strong in all situations, and show no obvious weakness. They are very often banned or picked right away, as they generally dictate the pace of most matches.

Niche Tier
Warrior
Assassin
Support
Specialist
Chen
Cho'gall
Ana
Probius
Cho'gall
Illidan↓
Tassadar
Sgt. Hammer
Rexxar
Raynor
Valeera
Varian (Twin Blades of Fury)
Niche tier heroes have niche application on certain maps or for certain team compositions. They may also picked to "round out" your team composition when your team composition is missing out on key components, such as a "jungler" (mercenary camps), a solo laner, or solid waveclear.

Lost Vikings Tier
The Lost Vikings
The Lost Viking are deemed to be either considerably weaker than the majority of other Heroes, or much more challenging to play properly. Although they may situationally shine, this notoriously poorly designed trio is generally avoided by most players.

Metagame assessment
Tanky meta featuring a tonne of crowd control. Most fights come down to who gets caught out of position first. The natural counters to a tanky meta is typically a double support meta, but Blizzard's recent crusade against support heroes and general design trend embracing overspecialization (i.e. healers can't deal damage or have waveclear, with Deckard being the pinnacle of such) makes this unlikely to happen unless there are more radical changes inbound. In other words, I feel like we may be stuck with what we see.
Deckard: Fits right in the current metagame with outstanding follow up to any initiation in the form of Scroll Of Sealing, high healing (though weak against displacement effects), great adaptive talents (notably, Emerald against any burst target and Kanai's Cube as a counter to burst) and armor to make him surprisingly difficult to kill. His biggest weakness might be lacking a Cleanse equivalent, though this is becoming more and more common.
Garrosh: Doesn't do well against Diablo, but wreaks havoc against many other tanks. Particularly strong right now due to being more or less unburstable on top of bringing his super reliable cleansing effect in Indomitable. High high armor works well with sustain healers who basically populate the two highest tiers of healers, bar Uther.
Hanzo: Excessive basic attack range allowed him to overshadow every other attack-based assassin bar Fenix. Reducing his range by about 15% puts him in right in range of a number of several movement abilities on top of giving him less breathing room against casters. This results in either reduced survivability or damage dealing potential, and in the inability to attack turrets without retaliation. His waveclear and evasiveness were also hit for good measure (through Explosive Arrows damage and Natural Agility range nerfs, respectively). He remains a fine hero, though nowhere near as oppressive, and nowhere near as safe for newer players. I don't expect him to do well in lower leagues.
Illidan: A feast-or-famine design that feels outdated in terms of depth, overshadowed in the face of rampant mobility creep, and out of meta versus so much crowd control. This will remain the case as long as he is balanced so tightly around using Betrayer's Thirst.